Lately I've been reading the Discworld novels as something I know that I will enjoy no matter who the book features. I've loved the YA Discworld books and the characters that come out of them.

I really hope we have a few more books, a grand finale as you will. It would be nice to see some of the characters from older books coming into a united storyline that connects with new characters. I almost want it to be something big and crazy where characters I know and love die, characters we haven't seen in awhile come back, and the entire fate of the discworld is at stake. I just feel like the latest books have lacked those dire consequences.

That said, I know that no matter what comes out, I will preorder and read over the course of a day or two. As much as I haven't loved the more recent books as much as some of the older ones, they're still better than a lot of the books out there.

Tristan wrote:I hope hope hope for another Death/Susan book!! As someone mentioned, we haven't had one in ages and I'm really starting to miss those characters. I also feel like Terry could still do so much with those characters (can't say the same about the Watch/AM).

I'm still happy to read a good yarn about the Watch and AM, but I do miss Death (not something I'm likely to say in any other context!) and Susan.

I feel like the wizards have gone as far as they can go, but I also thought that about the witches until they developed further (as Ash pointed out) in the Tiffany series. So I'd be happy to be wrong about the wizards too.

I'm with those above me, I'll put aside everything else for a new Pratchett

The canonical timeline is impossible. Whichever way you look at it there are contradictions, and signs that Pratchett changed his mind about some things between books. He himself said that Discworld sometimes has alternate pasts. So just decide which alternative you like.

These inconsistencies were handwaved in Thief of Time with the mention that time broke before and that putting it ogether again didn't work so well.
Now, in ToT, time breaks again and gets, apparently, put back together the way it should have always been.
Not to menion those time thingies except for one exploded, if I remember correctly.

That means, the time we have now in the stories is the time as it always should have been.

Look at the stories since nightwatch. Show me one inconsistency within those.

The canonical timeline is impossible. Whichever way you look at it there are contradictions, and signs that Pratchett changed his mind about some things between books. He himself said that Discworld sometimes has alternate pasts. So just decide which alternative you like.

And it doesn't matter anyway - Patrick O'Brian, in his series of historical seagoing adventures, kept 1812 going for about three years to fit in all the stories he wanted to tell and very few people noticed (and even fewer cared).

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